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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a Lamb. So I piped with merry cheer Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped he wept to hear.
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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.
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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
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How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perceived.
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